English adjective: sententious | |||
| 1. | sententious abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing | ||
| Samples | Too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation. | ||
| Similar | pretentious | ||
| Antonyms | unpretentious | ||
| 2. | sententious concise and full of meaning | ||
| Samples | Welcomed her pithy comments. The peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams. | ||
| Synonyms | pithy | ||
| Similar | concise | ||
| Antonyms | prolix | ||